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Waiting for Broadwell MBP Thread

Waiting for Broadwell MBP thread

So, who's forgoing the Haswell update and waiting for Broadwell in 2014/2015? I'm seriously tempted if it will have IGZO, or at least selling whatever Haswell rMBP I buy after Broadwell comes out.

Also, what do you think it'll have in terms of specs?
 
4K screen, Thunderbolt 2, and you'll be able to bake cookies on it if you put the dough just left of the touchpad.
 
If Haswell rMBP will not include IGZO display, I probably skip it until Broadwell and just buy a current Macbook Air 13''.
 
Won't forgo Haswell, but will get Broadwell if upgrade is significant enough to my liking.
 
UBS28 said:
The Broaddwell MBP looks to be an excellent upgrade, especially for GPU performance.

- Maxwell NVIDA GPU offers 2 times more performance per watt than the Kepler Architecture which are for example the 650m & 750m card. (expected in March 2014)

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/548203/what-should-we-expect-from-maxwell-/?offset=18

- Thunderbolt 2 (expected end of 2013)

- Intel Broadwel 14nm CPU's which has lower TDP and power consumption over Haswell. (expected 2nd half of 2014)
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Don't forget new graphics architecture for Intel's integrated graphics,
 
Doesnt Haswell already have new architecture for graphics that are supposed to rival discrete? Or is that Broadwell..
 
GSPice said:
That is a broad statement that makes many assumptions that have not all panned out in real life.. yet.

That being said, its up to Maxwell to trump the Broadwell GPU, which is supposed to be a 40% improvement over Haswell's GPU.
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That looks like Maxwell will have potentially 3x as much performance as Kepler. If that's the case and Apple removes the dGPU from the Haswell rMBP, does that mean Apple may put it back?
 
I am waiting for broadwell too - SURELY skylake or what it is called, will be an upgrade too - but broadwell will be the "real" beauty I think - it will be smaller in size, will be even more efficient and offer something haswell does not: it will be faster, and it will come with a better needed GPU, and a display that sucks less power (unless the Haswell units end up coming with the sharp displays)
 
tmiw said:
That looks like Maxwell will have potentially 3x as much performance as Kepler. If that's the case and Apple removes the dGPU from the Haswell rMBP, does that mean Apple may put it back?
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Sounds counter-intuitive. I think they'd keep it in, and wait 3-4 years to take it out if that's in their "master plan" for the MBP line.

Either that, or they remove it this year, and the notebook sucks compared to every other notebook for half the cost over the next 5 years.
 
VanillaCracker said:
Sounds counter-intuitive. I think they'd keep it in, and wait 3-4 years to take it out if that's in their "master plan" for the MBP line.

Either that, or they remove it this year, and the notebook sucks compared to every other notebook for half the cost over the next 5 years.
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Aren't there benchmarks already for the newest iMac that show that Iris Pro is pretty similar to the 650m?
 
tmiw said:
Aren't there benchmarks already for the newest iMac that show that Iris Pro is pretty similar to the 650m?
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It is better in open CL, but it's been shown that even the 4600 can be too. The dGPU isn't meant for compute tasks, as someone more knowledgeable on the subject has suggested. The dGPU is meant for more graphic intensive tasks, such as 3D and rendering. In those areas, Iris Pro does not come close to the 750M (re-branded 650M). About 20-30% decrease.

They're not equivalent though. Iris Pro matches up very closely with the performance of the 640M

Also, and this is a big also here. The iMac's Iris Pro configuration has a TDP of 65W (because it is a desktop variant), while the 15" rMBP's would only be 47W (for mobile). So that is partly while the iMac's Iris Pro looks even stronger. The rMBP's would not score that high due to a lower TDP

ParanoidDroid said:
Waiting for Skylake thread is here: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17907514
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Your thread got closed hah.
 
Maxwell vs. Broadwell. What happens if Maxwell is actually way better than Intel's next iGPU.
 
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